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Object type

Museum number

S.3801

Title (object)

L'Enfance (Childhood)

Title (series)

Les Quatres Ages de la vie humaine (The four ages of man)

Description

Interior with three playing children; a girl at centre holding a puppet and some bread (?) sidestepping the paper windmill held by the toddler in his highchair at right; in foreground a small boy making a cat stand on its hind legs, thus causing the dog at right to snarl; from a series of four plates published by Gole in Amsterdam.
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Interior with three playing children; a girl at centre holding a puppet and some bread (?) sidestepping the paper windmill held by the toddler in his highchair at right; in foreground a small boy making a cat stand on its hind legs, thus causing the dog at right to snarl; from a series of four plates published by Gole in Amsterdam. Mezzotint